Vera Wang Wed To Arthur Becker

Published: June 23, 1989

Vera Ellen Wang and Arthur Paul Becker were married yesterday at the Hotel Pierre in New York. The interfaith ceremony was performed by Rabbi Charles J. Davidson and the Rev. Dr. Melvin A. Hawthorne, a Baptist minister. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cheng Ching Wang of New York and Pound Ridge, N.Y. The bridegroom is a son of Dr. and Mrs. Arnold H. Becker of Avon, Conn.

Mrs. Becker, the design director for Ralph Lauren women's accessories and at-home wear in New York, graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. Her father is the president and chairman of the U.S. Summit Corporation, a trading company in New York, and a principal in the Oceanic Petroleum Corporation in Singapore.

Mr. Becker, a stockbroker at Bear, Stearns & Company in New York, graduated from Bennington College. His father, now retired, was the chief of staff at Bristol (Conn.) Hospital and the president of the Hartford County Medical Association. He is an associate clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington. The bridegroom's mother, Ruth S. Becker, who is retired, was a family therapist at Bristol Hospital.